It's quite intelligible and full of dignity.

I really can't smother my voice in consequence." He laughed with unnecessary abandonment.

The sensitive young women wanted no other schooling to recover themselves.

In a moment they were seen leaning back and contemplating him amusedly, as if he had been the comic spectacle, and were laughing for a wager.

There are few things so sour as the swallowing of one's own forced laugh.